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Boy, 7, succumbs hours after struck down by speeding car
Seven-year-old Joseph Quallis, who was struck down by a speeding car around 16:00 hrs on Thursday at Middle Road,
Joseph Quallis
La Penitence; succumbed to his injuries a few hours later at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).
Quallis, who resided at Lot 205 Middle Road, La Penitence died around 21:00 hrs Thursday from multiple injuries he sustained as a result of the accident.
According to information received, the boy was on his way to a shop near his home when the driver of a motor car reportedly lost control of the vehicle and hit the lad, pinning him to a fence where the vehicle finally came to a stop.
“He picked up my child first and then crashed into the fence. My son was mashed up,” the child’s mother, Shelly Ann Hutson explained to this publication while at the hospital.
According to the mother of four, her son went home from school around 15:00hrs on the day of the accident and changed out of his school uniform after which he joined her in front of the yard.
“He does normally get away and go by his cousin who lives not far from me, so I tell him not to go anywhere, I was holding his hand while standing on the bridge and I had my baby in my other hand,” the devastated mother recalled.
The woman further related that she could not recall when or how her son disappeared from her.
“I see a car coming up the road in a speed and then he crashed into my neighbour’s fence and I see when he pick up (struck) a child from the road…the child was pinned between the car and the fence, so I scream and tell he that he kill the people child, and then when the person in the yard pull out the child, I see it was my son,” the mother lamented.
The woman said that when she looked at her son, he was covered in blood. “His foot mash up and his head damage; even his side damage. I couldn’t believe it was my son.”
According to the woman, the driver told her that the brake on his car wasn’t working at the time of the accident‘. “Why drive if your brake is not working properly?”
The badly injured child was rushed to the hospital by his mother and other family members for medical attention but later succumbed to his injuries.
“The doctor said if he doesn’t die within couple hours then he will definitely die tonight (Thursday night) because his heart rate is very slow.”
The driver has since been taken into custody.
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